The first in our programme to release all three Ohio Players Westbound albums on vinyl.“Pain” was their first for the label, released in 1972. The album charted relatively modestly at #21, but it was the six months that it spent on the charts that was the surest indicator of what was to come. The band was touring heavily and was just a hit away from a breakthrough. This would come with their next Westbound album, “Pleasure”, and the hit, ‘Funky Worm’.Featuring the first of Joel Brodsky’s series of iconic covers.Regular weight black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve.

• 1. Pain
• 2. Never Had a Dream
• 3. Players Balling (Players Doin' Their Own Thing)
• 4. I Wanna Hear From You
• 5. The Reds
• 6. Singing In the Morning